PILOT POINT — Quarterback Travis Garrett
ran for one score and passed for another and teammate Tristen Jurecka ran for
two more as Pilot Point powered past Ponder for a 26-7 homecoming victory
Friday night.

The Bearcats improved to 5-2 overall,
2-1 in District 5-2A play, while the Lions slipped to 2-5, 0-3.

Jurecka ran 5 yards at the end of a
12-play, 65-yard drive with 4:18 left in the game to score the second half’s
only points after Pilot Point took a 20-7 halftime lead.

Jurecka finished with 75 yards rushing
on 15 carries, while Garrett rushed 18 times for 98 yards and passed for an
additional 120. Ponder was led by quarterback Reid Sanders, who completed 18 of
34 passes for 146 yards and a touchdown while suffering one interception.

Christian Worthington’s 61-yard kickoff
return left the Lions needing to go only 22 yards for an early 7-6 lead, with
the touchdown coming on a 5-yard Sanders pass to Austin Leveridge with 2:55
left in the first quarter.

The Bearcats bounced back to recapture
the lead at 14-7 on its next possession, going 58 yards in six plays and
scoring on a 2-yard Garrett sneak to open the second quarter. Garrett ran it in
for the 2-point conversion.

Garrett ran for 39 yards and passed for
32 more on a 14-play, 78-yard drive for a 20-7 Bearcats lead with 1:36 left in
the half. Pilot Point’s sophomore QB had a 22-yard run, passed to Creed Bright
for 20 more and saw a 14-yard run by Tristen Jurecka en route to the 6-yard
payoff pass to Steven Castorena.

The drive had to overcome three
penalties for 25 yards but was helped by a pass interference call on Ponder on
third-and-20.

The Lions went for it on fourth down the
first time they owned the ball and Pilot Point held to get at Ponder’s 45-yard
line. Pilot Point converted a fourth-down try with a 17-yard run by Jarren
Alexander, before Jurecka capped the seven-play drive with a 2-yard run for a
6-0 lead with 5:01 left in the first quarter.

Sanders completed his first eight passes
of the game and finished 12 of 16 for 85 yards in the first half. Garrett had
53 yards rushing on 12 carries and hit 4 of 7 passes for 67 yards by halftime.

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